Example sentences of "[vb pp] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On behalf of CEPT , the Conference on European Posts and Telecommunications , the European Radiocommunications Office has completed the first Detailed Spectrum Investigation into the use of radio frequencies in the microwave or millimetric spectrum — between 3.4GHz and 105GHz . |
| 2 | He was already a canon of Notre-Dame-de-Paris , and was to be given the first vacant prebend at Bordeaux or Bourges by papal provision . |
| 3 | Brown Owl , moving quickly , placed Brownie after Brownie in position , until she had formed the first human letter : — |
| 4 | Earlier , Malcolm Pyrah had won the first Olympic Talent Spotters Championship on It 's Me and , though he does not believe the small seven-year-old chestnut is potential Olympic material , he echoed the widespread praise for this new series of competitions . |
| 5 | Recent accessions have included the first American edition of Joseph Black 's Lectures on the elements of Chemistry , ( Philadelphia : 1807 ) ; a Paris edition of John Barclay 's Argenis printed in 1621 , and an item believed to have been printed in Edinburgh about 1800 entitled ‘ A Pleasant Humourous and satyrical poem ’ , part one of which calls on young women to ‘ embrace the pure and holy state of matrimony ’ : part two ‘ contains excellent directions in the choice of a husband … ’ |
| 6 | No sooner had we caught the first heady whiff of the East and altered the chemistry of our food with it than we made a quantum leap in our cultural and artistic range as well . |
| 7 | This brought to an end a two-week crisis which had presented the first serious threat to communist rule in Albania since its establishment during the Second World War . |
| 8 | The Middle Temple was where Elizabeth I was reputed to have attended the first documented performance of Twelfth Night , in 1602 , although there is now doubt about this . |
| 9 | Although Mao has been the subject of countless biographies , David Goodman has written the first fitting biography of Mr Deng . |
| 10 | It is no accident that Londoners were to be found financing enterprises in the shires — Henry Fyner , a goldsmith , had built the first English blast furnace at Hartfield , Sussex — and helping to create the country 's stock of ‘ social overhead capital ’ — roads and bridges , schools and colleges . |
| 11 | The BBC had missed the first international wicket of the season , in preference to a weather report and some local tittle-tattle . |
| 12 | Had the system been accepted the first commercial power satellite might have been in operation by 2010 . |
| 13 | She had come to painting late but after the exhibition of ‘ Angela ’ in 1900 , an Impressionistic portrait of a woman at a mantelpiece in a shimmering , full-skirted dress , she was made the first female member of the New English Art Club . |
| 14 | SENIOR office-bearers in one of the Scottish National Party 's Lanarkshire branches have made the first formal call for the party leader , Alex Salmond , to resign . |
| 15 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 16 | Dave Walsh and Roger Mear have made the first British ascent of mighty Nanga Parbat , 8,165 metres . |
| 17 | By enabling IBM Cobol/VSAM CICS applications to run on Unix systems , says Crawford , users are offered the first easy step in moving off their proprietary mainframes ; he reckons Unikix facilitates 200–600% long-term cost-of-ownership savings for a typical customer . |
| 18 | Yet if the IPPR has its way , the Labour Party will be adopting parent-friendly , talent-rewarding policies well before Lord James Douglas-Hamilton has got the first secondary school to say goodbye to our authoritarian system . |
| 19 | Although Newcomen had produced the first practical steam-engine in the early years of the eighteenth century , it was capable only of a simple back-and-forth or up-and-down motion and therefore disappeared under-ground to be used for pumping water out of mines . |
| 20 | In effect , even those who move across the margins into CID work have produced the first structural crack in the preferred coherent model of uniformed and unitary policing . |
| 21 | US scientists have successfully produced the first gene-altered wheat , opening up the possibility of the development of high-protein strains and ones resistant to drought and disease . |
| 22 | The survey has produced the first national estimate of below tolerable standard houses derived from consistently applied methods . |
| 23 | But I find myself left with what may be called the first main proposition of this book : |
| 24 | The next printing , of 1866 , was from new type and was therefore the second edition , often , if not accurately , called the first published edition , on the grounds that , since so few of the 1865 copies were published and a number were recalled by Carroll , it was really a private printing and does n't count . |
| 25 | Built with folding wings ( originally to enable it to be hidden in caves ) , had the mighty carrier Shinano survived long enough , Japan could have fielded the first carrier-based jet strike force with Kitsukas ! |
| 26 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 27 | PIONEERING Dawn Walden pictured right , has become the first female fire fighter at Courtaulds Fibres ' Grimsby plant in the UK . |
| 28 | Adele Graham from Pest Control South West has become the first female supervisor . |
| 29 | Herman Ouseley has become the first black chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 30 | In contesting the run-off , Young had become the first black candidate to progress beyond the primary stage of the electoral process for any state-wide office within the state of Georgia . |